The Facts: Rodgers has only one Super Bowl ring. He now has three league MVP awards. The Associated Press announced Rodgers as the winner of the league’s biggest on-field honor for 2020, the third time he has won MVP.
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Johnny Unitas, Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Jim Brown and Tom Brady are the only other players ever to have won the MVP award more than twice. Manning won it a record five times. Rodgers also won the award in 2011 and 2014. The announcement was not a surprise considering he received 46 of 50 votes for the quarterback position on the All-Pro team selected by the Associated Press, which is the same votes who select the MVP. Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen received two votes each on the All-Pro team. Those AP voters then vote for one MVP, with no second or third choices. Rodgers led the league with a 121.5 passer rating, the second-best in NFL history. He threw 48 touchdowns and only five interceptions, and the Packers had an NFC-best 13-3 record. It marks the eighth consecutive year a quarterback has won the award, dating to 2012 when then-Vikings running back Adrian Peterson took home league MVP honors.